Los Angeles | New York
Arielle Zadok
Intimacy Coordinator | Sex Educator
Facilitating creative excellence in storytelling through communication, consent, collaboration & education.
Known for her ability to infuse teams with positive energy while coming up with clear action plans, Arielle has spent the last 18+ years working in Film, Television and Advertising creating psychologically safe, supportive spaces where people can perform at the highest levels of their ability.
Why hire and Intimacy Coordinator?
An Intimacy Coordinator is a liaison between actors, producers and directors for scenes involving nudity, simulated sex and hyper exposure of minors.
By facilitating an environment where the director’s vision can be honored without jeopardizing the safety or consent of actors, we can collectively create impactful scenes that sweep audiences off their feet and take their breath away.
What does an Intimacy Coordinator do?
Facilitate clear communication between actor, director & producer to ensure all parties understand the creative vision and agree on the way it will be filmed.
Support actors in emotionally preparing for intense intimacy scenes such as simulated sexual violence, ensuring their psychological safety before, during and after the scene is filmed.
Collaborate with other departments to facilitate logistics involving scenes of nudity and simulated sex, ensuring a smooth production process.
Ensuring actors boundaries are respected at all times, including during the filming of the scene, and supporting any shifts in those boundaries in real time so the production can keep moving in a way that it’s in alignment with both creative and the actor’s boundaries.
Supporting minors in scenes involving familial intimacy such as snuggling or hyper exposure such as taking a bath, being on a toilet or in a bathing suit.
Ensure closet set protocols and SAG-AFTRA guidelines are being followed.
Ensure the actors have a working environment that is both physically and psychologically safe for them.
Serve as an on-set ally for LGBTQIA+ cast and crew members.
Choreography of simulated sex scenes to enhance authenticity and believability.
Consult on scenes and storylines involving non-monogamy, Kink, BDSM and alternative lifestyles to enhance authenticity.
Services
As and Intimacy Coordinator Arielle will work with the production, director and the actors to ensure the creative vision is achieved while keeping actors safe and informed, while helping the production running efficiently on schedule for scenes involving nudity and simulated sex. She will ensure all union and legal protocols are followed, and that boundaries and consent are being respected at all times. If requested, Arielle will also assist with choreography of simulated sex including scenes involving strip clubs and pole dancers.
As a Consultant Arielle will work with writers, directors, actors and department heads to ensure accurate and believable storytelling in the areas of non-monogamy, polyamory, alternative lifestyles and family structures, kink / BDSM, sex work, pole dancing and burlesque. She will work with creatives to ensure sensitivity, authentic storytelling and harm-reduction in how these communities are represented on screen.
Arielle also brings her production expertise to sexuality professionals and sexual wellness brands helping them create systems and structures to sustainably produce their own content and build their brands through podcasting and video content.
As a Certified Sex Educator Arielle is available for speaking engagements and workshops on a variety of topics such as understanding and expressing sensuality, exploring intimacy, STI education & prevention, non-monogamy & alternative lifestyles, kink & BDSM, the pleasure gap, sexuality & gender, understanding sexual harassment and more.
She is available for 1:1 calls, couple / throuple / polycule calls, members clubs, play parties, employee trainings, organizations, and collaborations with sexual wellness brands.
Meet Arielle
(She / her / hers)
Arielle is a Certified Intimacy Coordinator and Certified Sex Educator who brings with her 18+ years working in the film, television and advertising industries as a Producer and Assistant Director prior to shifting her focus to intimacy.
Before completing her Intimacy Coordinator Certification through Intimacy Professional’s Association (IPA), and obtaining a Consent Forward Artist Certificate though Intimacy Directors & Coordinators, she was in a leadership position at The Walt Disney Company and ABC Signature Studios, supporting the Television Physical and Post Production Departments in returning to work and navigating production throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arielle is known for her people-centered approach in advocating for safe working environments that support the director’s creative vision, her infectious positive energy, and her ability to work with high profile talent and executives in high stress, emotionally charged, time sensitive situations.
She has had specialized training in trauma-informed care, emotional intelligence, de-escalation, sexual harassment, kink & BDSM, working with minors, diversity & inclusion and movement.
She holds a sex educator certification through Everyone Deserves Sex Ed and is currently obtaining an additional certification through the Modern Sex Therapy Institute and is under the Supervision of Logan Levkoff, PhD.
Arielle holds a Certification in Holistic Health Coaching from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.
Photo Credit: Ellenor Argyropolous.